Alan Leibert

Alan Leibert does not like being called a computing pioneer although he started in the industry when computers filled vast computer halls with a mountain of strange whirring and clicking devices, all aimed at calculation 2+2 faster than a man could run 100 yards. Since then, he has lived through a myriad of changes delivering orders of magnitude in price and size reduction coupled with outstanding increases in processing power. K has become Mega and now Giga. Social networking takes us into a new era in which the technology is assumed and its wide use by society as a whole introduces new moral issues to bear based upon an ‘If you can think of it, you can do it’ attitude which can clearly be seen as both a force for good and as a force for evil. AI takes us a stage further where human override and control may be lost. This book examines the consequences of such possibilities.